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triˈdactylous, a. [f. as prec. + -ous.] 1. = prec.
1828in Webster. 1851Mantell Petrifact. i. §3. 65 The foot-tracks are, for the most part, tridactylous (three-toed). 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. II. 379 Feet tridactylous, palmate, with hallux none. †2. Chem. Applied to a compound of an atom of one element with 3 atoms of another, as SO3. Obs.
1865Mansfield Salts 483 The simple molecule Sn...does not imitate the molecule Sb. in forming tridactylous compounds either with O. or with H. |